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Quebec filmmaker Anne Claire Poirier dies at 94
Anne Claire Poirier, a pioneering Quebec filmmaker, died in Montreal at 94 on Sept.
27.
She worked at the National Film Board of Canada, where she began in 1960 and learned filmmaking by watching its productions.
At the time, she was the only francophone woman directing and producing films at the NFB.
In 1973, she and other francophone women there launched En tant que femmes, a series of six films by women about women’s issues.
Poirier also directed *Mourir à tue-tête*, which was selected for the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, and her work helped shape Quebec cinema.
Her films and support for women filmmakers left a lasting mark on Canadian film.
Quebec filmmaker Anne Claire Poirier died in Montreal on Sept. 27 at age 94.
She was a pioneering filmmaker at the National Film Board of Canada and worked in documentary, fiction and experimental film.
Her 1979 drama Mourir à tue-tête was selected for the Cannes Film Festival.
In 1973, she and other francophone women at the NFB launched En tant que femmes, a series of six films by women about women’s issues.
As an NFB producer, she also supported emerging female filmmakers.
- Who
- Anne Claire Poirier, a Quebec filmmaker.
- What
- She died at age 94.
- When
- Sept. 27; the year is not stated.
- Where
- Montreal.
- Why
- Not stated.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Poirier was born on June 6 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec.
She moved to the National Film Board of Canada.
Her film 30 Minutes, Mister Plummer was made.
Poirier and other francophone women at the NFB launched the En tant que femmes series.
Her drama Mourir à tue-tête was selected for the Cannes Film Festival.
Poirier died in Montreal at age 94.
- Age at death
- 94
- Date of birth
- June 6, 1932
- Birthplace
- Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec
- NFB career began
- 1960
- En tant que femmes
- Six French-language films launched in 1973
- Cannes selection
- Mourir à tue-tête, 1979
What people are saying
one of the pioneers of Quebec cinema
is that she was a woman – in fact, the only [francophone] woman directing and producing films at the NFB when she first emerged
to broaden the daily life of women into the history of women of Quebec. It’s not exactly an historical film, but the meaning of the history of women is the primary source material